The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 106: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 83 But [the Galilzans will say ], O! you who have admitted into your soul every multitude of deemons, who though, according to you, they are formless and unfigured, you have fashioned in a corporeal resemblance, it is not fit that honour should be paid to divinity through such works. How, then, do we not consider as wood and stones those sta- tues which are fashioned by the hands of men? O more stupid than even stones themselves! Do you fancy that all men are to be drawn by the nose as you are drawn by execrable demons, so as to think that the artificial resemblance of the gods are the gods themselves? Looking, therefore, to the resemblances of the gods, we do not think them to be either stones or wood; for neither do we think that the gods are these resemblances ; since neither do we say that royal images are wood, or stone, or brass, nor that they are the kings themselves, but the images of kings. Whoever, therefore, loves his king, beholds with pleasure the image of his king; whoever loves his child is de- lighted with his image; and whoever loves his father surveys his image with delight. Hence, also, he who is a lover of divinity gladly surveys °Y Neon G HOO) SS (CO mn